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On Media-Thirst Guys, and the horrifying knowledge that you can only relate with people just as brain-sick as you.
My girlfriend almost ghosted me after our second date.
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Professional Writer?
Last summer, I wrote a story for, let's say, a mid-tier Hearst magazine about "survival influencers." Basically, there is a small sect of YouTubers…
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Let it die
It should be impossible to read Spin in 2021.
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As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a blogger
I did not grow up on Vanity Fair, or Esquire, or any of those lurid, mostly fabricated 9,000 word Playboy interviews with, like, James Caan.
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Did the campus free-speech people actually go to college?
It is weird that we have spent this much time talking about campus free speech.
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The Hustle Guy monetizing his midlife crisis
The YouTube channel TechLead hit rock bottom in a video uploaded in early June entitled "Living with my parents in my 'man cave' (as a millionaire…
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Becoming Wordle Man
On January 7, I published a story about Wordle in the Slate culture section. It's about 1,200 words long and took a morning to write. I'm not sure if I…
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On Earth We Were Briefly BuzzFeed
This isn't a Try Guys explainer.
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Waiting on Shrimp Guy, forever
Every day, people ask Jensen Karp if he finally figured out what was going on with the shrimp in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
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Justice For Bad Writing
My freelancing career began, in earnest, when I was a sophomore in college.
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I wish you all a very pleasant Offline
A restored thirst for normieness is afoot.
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You're taking Ws, even when you're taking Ls
I used to follow Eve Barlow back in the day.
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